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What if you found your own grave—and it wasn’t empty? Discover the dark delights of faeries and fortune-tellers in this gently spooky book from the author of Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times, sure to appeal to fans of Coraline.
Grave robbing is a messy business.
A bad business. And for Thomas Marsden, on what was previously an unremarkable spring night in London, it becomes a very spooky business. For lying in an unmarked grave and half covered with dirt is a boy the spitting image of Thomas himself. This is only the first clue that something very strange is happening. Others follow, but it is a fortune-teller’s frightened screams that lead Thomas into a strange world of spiritualists, death, and faery folk. Faery folk with whom Thomas’s life is bizarrely linked. Faery folk who need his help.
Desperate to unearth the truth about himself and where he comes from, Thomas is about to discover magic, ritual, and the uncanny truth that sometimes the things that make a boy ordinary are what make him extraordinary.
- Sales Rank: #507819 in Books
- Brand: Trevayne, Emma
- Published on: 2015-07-28
- Released on: 2015-07-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .90" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 4–7—From the first chapter, Trevayne will have readers intrigued. On the eve of Thomas Marsden's 12th birthday, he and his father are out after dark looking for graves to rob. It's 19th-century London, and grave robbing is how Thomas and his father keep food on the table and the tallow candles burning. Thomas has developed a knack for "finding the bones": the sense of knowing which grave might hold the plunder they can sell in order to fill their bellies and put coal in the home fire. On this night, the first grave's yield is two silver coins. The second grave is fresh, and there is no coffin, just a body, one that is identical to Thomas, even down to the blemish on his cheek. There are also faeries living in London, trapped in the basement of a grand home belonging to a spiritualist named Mordecai. These faeries were brought to London against their will by Mordecai and able to speak for the dead, making him rich and famous. Even the queen has come to him in order to speak to her dead husband. The faeries are entrapped by evil magic and the iron that hurts and weakens them. The oldest of them, Deadnettle, has a plan to help them escape back to their world. The key is Thomas Marsden. Finding the grave of his "twin" leads Thomas to the faeries and to his destiny. Full of mystery and suspense, this fantasy adventure presents a likable main character, an eye into historical London, and an opportunity to recognize that sometimes it is our very ordinariness that makes us special. VERDICT A first purchase.—Kathy Kirchoefer, Henderson County Public Library, NC
Review
“So full of verve and imagination that the sinister steampunk world practically pops off the page. The prose sparkles, the inventions astonish, and the characters are ones you'll root for from the moment you meet them. Loved it, beginning to end.” (Stefan Bachman, author of The Peculiar on Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times)
"In this steampunk fantasy...no one character is all good or all bad, and Trevayne explores their motivations and machinations thoroughly. The richly drawn world and inventive steampunk elements help this novel stand out from the pack of middle-grade fantasy." (School Library Journal, on Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times)
"[F]ast-paced, escalating suspense...the novel’s strength lies in worldbuilding and vivid descriptions, and Anglophiles will likely enjoy the historical-cultural references." (Kirkus Reviews on Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times)
"Once action passes through to Londinium the pace picks up and the steampunk narrative starts to hum. Jack's mechanical ability is put to good use, but it is the power of loyalty and friendship that gives the story its strength and drives it to a rousing conclusion." (The Horn Book Magazine, on Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times)
"Readers will find that this darkly intriguing faery story has an appealingly grounded hero." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Full of mystery and suspense, this fantasy adventure presents a likable main character, an eye into historical London, and an opportunity to recognize that sometimes it is our very ordinariness that makes us special." (School Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW))
" Fairies, fakers, and family all play important roles in a story that effortlessly combines magic and reality." (Booklist)
"Trevayne creates a highly entertaining twist on a fairy tale. Full of hidden messages, midnight graveyard escapades, unlikely friendships, magic,and deceit, it's an engaging tale of one boy's efforts to find himself and hisway back home." (Publishers Weekly)
About the Author
Emma Trevayne is a full-time writer. She is an avid music collector, a lover of computer code languages, and a photographer. She has written two young adult novels, Coda and Chorus, and a middle grade novel, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times. She has lived in Canada, England, and America.
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
excellent - creative, fun, unique adventure
By Amazon Customer
Overall, this book is excellent--I haven't read a children's novel that's this unique, fun, and complete in a single novel (not a trilogy!) for a long time. The Amazon description says it will appeal to fans of Coraline, but I'd like to reassure you that it's nowhere near as creepy, even though it has some darker moments, and scenes of creatures held captive against their will, in filth. (But Coraline was overly creepy to me, and this book wasn't--it includes some grave digging, but doesn't include people who have buttons instead of eyes.) It's hopeful, desperate, exciting, adventurous, and most characters have some depth to them (apart from the main bad guy who's pretty much straight-out-evil, even though it eventually gives his backstory). As a parent, I love the many "what if" questions it generates about what you might do in a wide range of scenarios, though it does so in a way that's inspiring rather than pedantic.
Grades 3-7 is accurate--the book is a bit too long for younger kids (unless they're advanced readers, and even then the dark parts of the story may be too much, depending on the child), and it's too juvenile for high school. But it really hits the sweet spot in the middle
I did receive a pre-release version of this book and it had a couple of glitches that I hope/assume will be fixed before the final novel comes out. One is minor--a sentence is repeated twice and it confused me (I re-read it, thinking it was a very similar sentence with a nuance I was missing) before I realized it was a mistake. Then near the end of the book there was a weird shift in a scene (pages 202-216) where a group of people sets out together (leaving one person behind), then the scene concludes with a different group of characters (suddenly including the one who was left behind). It's a bit jarring because it's just a mistake, not done on purpose. Finally there's a bit of an oddity in the storytelling, where something that had been alluded to but never described in detail becomes a pivotal clue, but leaves you feeling "wai-what? is THAT the thing that hadn't been described?" But I'm very hopeful that these will be tweaked before the book goes into production, as otherwise it's really quite a fun story.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Better for Younger Kids
By Conspicuous Consumer
Review by 13 year old male:
I like that it’s in the perspective of you being that person, not looking at a character. Few books are written that way. It definitely has a steampunk feel to it which I liked. It’s not too gory so it wouldn't leave a kid scared.
It was alright but I might not buy another book from the author. The characters and plot were not always interesting and sometimes totally lost my interest. I think it's probably better for younger kids.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Find your bones
By Dienne
I will give Emma Trevayne credit for drawing me into a very well-drawn world with complex, engaging characters and an original plotline. The book had me turning pages, eager to know where this story was going and what would happen next. Unfortunately, as with so many books that are set up so well, the ending just doesn’t quite pull it off. Things seem to happen just a bit too easily and important details seem to be glossed over
The book opens with 11-year-old (nearly 12-year-old) Thomas Marsden and his father Silas going out for their nightly grave-digging to put food on the table and coal in the hearth. Despite their profession, Thomas and Silas are fundamentally decent people and, despite ourselves, we find ourselves liking them rather quickly. Their first take of the night is pretty decent – Thomas has always seemed to have a knack for “finding his bones”. There’s still time for another before the night is out and, fortunately, Thomas finds a freshly dug grave – always easier when the earth is already dug up for you.
But what’s in that grave gives both Thomas and Silas the shock of their lives – Thomas himself. Or, rather, a boy who happens to look just like Thomas. And more, the boy seems to have been buried specifically for Thomas to find him. The boy has some messages in his hand meant for Thomas, along with some tickets to a spiritualist show.
Meanwhile, we also meet the strange and elusive Deadnettle and the young Marigold and we begin to piece together their story. It takes a bit of doing, but eventually we have enough pieces to connect them with Thomas and along the way we learn a story of faeries and enchantment, capture and enslavement. Thomas learns of his roots as a faery changeling – the “useless” one who was abandoned on a grave stone to be found by Silas as a human child. The “useless” one is now being asked to do the impossible by the very people who abandoned him. And why should he anyway?
This is fundamentally a story about human decency and potential. While Deadnettle looks at the human world through the misery inflicted on him by the only human he has ever known, Thomas’s world, despite its drab, seemingly hopeless drudgery, has shown him a different picture. He was cared for by two people who took him in and treated him as their own son. He has formed bonds with others of his station in life and he has developed a keen eye for who can be trusted and who cannot; what is possible and what is not. He may not have the faery powers of his twin in the grave, but perhaps his very ordinary “humanness” is the key to the whole thing. At least, that’s what Queen Wintercress thought when she hatched this whole plan 12 years ago.
As mentioned, the story is very well drawn and original. Trevayne has done a remarkable job of creating a Victorian London that we feel we actually enter and experience for ourselves. The challenges and dilemmas that the characters face are real and powerful and we can identify with the characters’ motives, even when we might not agree with their actions. Even the “bad guy” Mordecai is tempered and we understand his motivations and see some glimmer of humanity in him still.
Nevertheless, the last 50 pages or so the story starts to become a bit jumbled as it seems some necessary scenes and actions are simply skipped over and assumed, which causes a bit of a rushed feeling and which lead to a feeling of the resolution being rather too easy. The story could have benefitted a lot by drawing out those scenes, increasing the suspense and fully developing the challenge that Thomas faces. It seems like the story goes from the task being impossible to the task being accomplished without a whole lot of explanation of how that happened.
Nevertheless, I still recommend the book highly for the engaging characters, the realistic reel of the setting and the original plotline. In a time when both the macabre and fairy stories have been done to death, Trevayne manages to breathe new life into a blended genre.
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